These notes were written in the margins of our old paddle book.
7/4/2006
Paddled with Gene and Susan to the Milwaukee Street take out (Rock River). Approx 2.5 hr. Had to portage around log about mile 2. Saw cranes overhead and heron. Flow at Rome 86 cfs (mean 65, max 200, min 8.5)
6/28/2006
With Jeanne and Katia. 6.5 miles to town. Take out about 3 hours. Flow 133 cfs.
This was the note in our old paddle book. Not sure of exact date 08/04 – assuming it was 2004.
There isn’t much record of our first paddle – we have gotten more verbose over time. I do know it was July 2002 – one of our earliest paddles! It took 2.5-3hrs to go from Burnt Village to the Rock River. Since it was just the two of us, we must have shuttled our own car
We had a memorable picnic. In retrospect, it might have been on private property. It was a nice sunny day.
Water level was low.